Feminist Theology: Voices from the PastISBN: 978-0-7456-0868-6
Hardcover
240 pages
June 2001, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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Mary Wollstonecraft argued for the 'rights' of women'; Josephine
Butler fought against the devaluation of women expressed in the
Contagious Diseases Acts; Dorothy L. Sayers had a powerful sense of
the way women and men grace one another's lives in their work. They
all drew on the Christian tradition of their own times, but this
has rarely been given weight. These women have not been considered
together, nor as theologians, as here in Ann Loades's new book. In
their life time, each of them opened up some painful issues:
abortion and its significance in our shared social lives, forms of
coercion, especially the sexual abuse of children, and the
importance of women's work. Their courage and generosity offer
salutary challenges to our own times.
Feminist Theology will be of interest to all those concerned
with contemporary theological questions as well as to students of
feminism and the analysis of gender, in sociology, politics and the
humanities.